WALS 2023: 2nd International Workshop on Web Applications for Life Sciences University of Alicante Alicante, Spain, June 6-9, 2023 |
Conference website | http://www.bioinformatics.deib.polimi.it/wals2023/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wals2023 |
Submission deadline | March 30, 2023 |
The recent advances in unraveling the secrets of human conditions and diseases have encouraged new paradigms for their diagnosis and treatment. In addition, the recent pandemics have brought increasing attention toward the genetic mechanisms of viruses and infected hosts. The information related to these phenomena is growing at unprecedented rates, directly impacting the design and development of data management pipelines and their applications. New ways of processing and exposing data and knowledge on the Web in healthcare and life sciences environments are thus strongly needed.
The WALS workshop, in its second edition, aims at being a meeting forum for Web Engineering, Data Management, and Bioinformatics researchers working on life sciences problems, offering the opportunity to share, discuss and find new approaches to support Search, Knowledge Extraction, and Data Science on the Web, thereby achieving significant results for healthcare, precision medicine, biology, genomics, and virology. The workshop welcomes submissions of fresh investigations and demonstrations concerning conceptual, experimental, and applied studies of life sciences problems on the Web.
Directions of particular interest include: 1) monitoring and adaptation of Web Engineering techniques for life sciences; 2) design and engineering of Web applications for resolving life sciences problems; 3) development of crowdsourcing and collaborative strategies for life sciences data curation, integration, and discovery.
Submission Guidelines
We invite submissions of high-quality papers describing original and unpublished results regarding any of the workshop’s topics of interest.
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The authors must submit manuscripts using the Springer-Verlag LNCS style for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. For style files and details, see the page https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines.
The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full papers: maximum 12 pages, including references
- Posters: maximum 6 pages, including references.
Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wals2023.
To ensure high quality, the Program Committee will thoroughly review all papers. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or having more than 12 pages will not be reviewed and thus automatically rejected. The papers must be original and not submitted or accepted for publication in any other workshop, conference, or journal. Submissions to WALS 2023 are electronically only.
List of Topics
The workshop focuses on Web Engineering as a means for facing the challenges that emerge when designing and developing applications for life sciences, focused on several branches such as healthcare, precision medicine, molecular biology, genomics, and virology. The workshop is not restricted to particular research methods, and we will consider conceptual, empirical, and applied research (including practical demonstrations).
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Web applications modeling and engineering for genomics.
- Web applications for the management of electronic/digital healthrecords (EHR).
- Web user interfaces for genomics, virology, or molecular biology.
- Development of Web systems for Precision Medicine.
- Web services for exploration of life sciences databases and knowledgegraphs.
- Biological knowledge extraction.Genomic big data analytics.
- Web crowdsourcing methods for life sciences data curation andannotation.
- Information visualization and exploratory analysis methods for biology.
- Data science applications to healthcare and biology on the Web.
- Semantic Web knowledge representation for genomics.
- Life sciences Semantic Web applications.Biomedical ontologies engineering.
- Interoperability of health information systems and databases on the Web.
- Web Engineering techniques for FAIRification of biological datasets.
- COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 tracking via Web applications.
Committees
Program Committee
- Giuseppe Agapito
- José Alberto Benítez-Andrades
- Stefano Ceri
- Pietro Cinaglia
- Tommaso Dolci
- Jose Luis Garrido
- Giancarlo Guizzardi
- Ana León
- Sergio Lifschitz
- Giovanni Meroni
- Jose Ignacio Panach Navarrete
- Oscar Pastor
- Rosario Piro
Organizing committee
- Anna Bernasconi, Politecnico de Milano, Italy
- Alberto García S., Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- Pietro Pinoli, Politecnico de Milano, Italy
Publication
WALS 2023 proceedings will be part of the ICWE 2023 Workshop volume published in Springer series.
Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline: April 14th, 2023
- Notification deadline: May 5th, 2023
- Article revision deadline: May 15th, 2023
- Conference days: June 6-9th, 2023
- Camera-ready deadline: July 9th, 2023
Venue
The conference will be held in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2023) in Alicante, Spain - June 6-9, 2023 (in-person conference).
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to: algarsi3@pros.upv.es.